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than from women? are
& questions for critical reading
1. what temperament traits do you have? are they gender linked?
2. what problems face a society that has established rigid gender-linked
expectations?
3. how are gender-linked temperament expectations reinforced by societva
4. how much of a range of difference in gender expectation has mead for
other cultures?
5. does our society expect different behavior from men than from wo
those differences visible in daily behavior?
6. is it possible for a society to mold similar behavior in men and women?
7. why does mead give us all the examples she does from other societies?
find them convincing?
8. what problems do people with the "wrong" temperaments face in a sociera
9. do you think gender-linked temperaments are biological and natural? w
why not?